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			<a href="http://identengine.com/"><h1><span>Ident Engine</span></h1></a>
			<h2 id="strapline"><span>A JavaScript library that retrieves and aggregates profiles from across the web</span> </h2>
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        <h1>Ident Engine YQL APIs</h1>
        
     
        
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        There are a number of cases where using a large JavaScript library like 
		Ident Engine is problematic. A good example would be mobile applications 
		where you may need to limit file sizes to the absolute minimum. So I 
		have created a couple of easy-to-use web based API&#39;s that only require a 
		few lines of code to be used in a web page or RIA.</p>
		
		
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								<a href="identites.htm">Identities API</a>
								<p>Uses Google&#39;s Social Graph API with additional data to build 
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				list of identities. The API can also return associated service 
				endpoints for each of the sites it finds.</p>
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								<a href="identites-html.htm">IdentitiesHTML API</a>
								<p>Uses Google&#39;s Social Graph API with additional data to build 
								a 
				list of identities.The API creates a ready-to-use block of HTML 
				which can be directly inserted into any page.</p>

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		The APIs were created by placing the core of the Ident Engine into a couple of 
		<a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/">YQL</a> 
		opentables which provide a simple to use API. There is only one small drawback in using 
		the YQL 
		architecture, it is hard to support the event driven processes of Ident 
		Engines profile parsing. You will find that in some circumstances, using the original JavaScript library will return more results as 
		profile parsing has had to be excluded from these APIs.
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